Key-holder



D. H. SMITH.

KEY HOLDER- APPLICATIONHLED FEB. 23. I916.

Patented Aug. 1,1916. 1

DREWRY H. SMITH, 0F BLUEFIELD, WEST VIRGINIA.

KEY-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 1, 1916.

Application filed February 23, 1916. Serial No. 80,046.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DREWRY H. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residin at Bluefield, in the county of Mercer and tate of \Vest Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Key- Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in devices by means of which key rings, keys I or chains and the like may be attached to a belt in a relatively fixed manner, one object of the invention being the provision of a simple, durable and cheap device of this character, which is thoroughly efficient and practical in use.

In the accompanying drawings :Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device applied to a belt. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the device per 86. Fig. 3 is a front elevation thereof. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the flat metal blank.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 5 designates the belt, and 6 the device removably attached thereto.

The device 6, consists of a single strip 7 of flat metal, which is folded to provide the inner resilient tongue 8, the loop 9, for the reception of the metal loop 10, of the spring catch 11., the U-shaped portion 12, which embraces the tongue 8, and the inwardly bent terminal hook 13, which is adapted to fit below the belt 5, and enter the aperture 1% of the tongue, and thus lock the device upon the belt.

In using the present device, the portion of the U-shaped member 12 carrying the hook 13 is slid over the top edge and rear portion of the belt, with the resilient tongue bearing against the front side thereof, the hook being presented below the lower edge of the belt so that the same will enter the aperture 14, and thus with the tension of the tongue 8 and the locking of the hook in the aperture 14, the device will be frictionally held from sliding upon the belt and against upward movement thereon.

Any catch may be employed, the one here shown being a conventional one. In fact any device by means of which a key, a key ring or a chain such as is attached to a key ring and a watch may be employed.

Although the present device has been described as used with a belt, it is apparent that it can be used with waist band of trousers, the word or designation belt meaning any support from which the holder is hung.

What I claim, as new, is:--

A key holder, comprising a strip blank bent on itself to provide long and short resilient limbs, the long limb being struck inwardly adjacent to the bight in the strip to provide a shoulder, said long limb being further bent to provide a hook extending in over-lapping relation to the short limb, a

pointed nib formed at the terminal of the hook, said short limb being formed with an aperture for detachably receiving the nib and a hanger having an eye engaged in the bight in the strip between the limbs thereof and held against displacement by the shoulder.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

DREWRY H. SMITH.

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Washington, D. G. 

